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Bots on steemit take all the stuff(comments, transfers, posts, etc) that happens on the steem blockchain from public content nodes(which are essentially servers). In the last few days, the official public nodes created by steemit have been down or made private. Other known public nodes have also been acting funny. The MSP bot uses one such public node and hence the MSP service is also down.

Okay, the way you phrased it made it sound like the MSP bots were the ones causing the issue with the content nodes.

So if the nodes are down or private, does that mean that things aren't being documented properly on the blockchain, or that things that are being documented on the blockchain can't be publicly viewed anymore?

Does anyone know what's happening?

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